Everything Musk Go: A Photo Essay
He got the hell out of DOGE, but the damage is done
Every time I see Elon Musk on TV or come across a story about him in print, I think about a commercial jingle I heard a hundred times, easily, when I was growing up in the rural South.
You’re in luck when you’ve got a McCullough chain saw
You’ve got power by the hour in your hands
With McCullough you’re the master ’cause you keep a cuttin’ faster
You’re in luck when you’ve got a McCullough chain sawwwww!
Musk isn’t a McCullough man, but the guy once best-known for his electric vehicles and celebrated as a visionary genius is now and forever will be identified foremost with the chainsaw he awkwardly brandished at MAGA rallies, cartoonishly suggesting the pitiless cuts his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was going to make in government agencies and programs.
Well, that and what looked like Nazi salutes.
Musk’s tenure as a hit man for President Donald Trump is officially over. Even if he’s never brought back for a encore, however, he and his tech-bro terror team did damage aplenty.
In the name of eradicating waste and fraud that didn’t come near his predictions, he and his minions hobbled everything from the U.S. Department of International Development to the IRS with mass, willy-nilly firings, meanwhile soaking up our supposedly private data for uses we can only guess.
One thing anybody who’s actually used a chainsaw knows, however, is that they’re dangerous tools. You can hurt yourself.
Musk may have done more damage to himself than he did to the so-called “Deep State.”
The stock price of his signature company, Tesla, is way down, and so are sales of the luxury EVs.
The Americans who were most likely to buy them — tree-hugging progressives eager to save the warming world — are ditching their Teslas if they can afford it, putting disclaimer stickers on their bumpers if the can’t.
Here are a few anti-Musk images I’ve photographed:
It may be small consolation to those who’ve lost their jobs and others, including you and me, who may yet feel the impact of DOGE demolition, but Musk’s name is mud.
Karma.
